The deadly Senator Lidia Thorpe and her battles over the past two days

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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been pulled to the ground after attempting to interrupt anti-trans-rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull at a rally outside parliament.

Key points:
Senator Thorpe was pulled to the ground by a police officer while attempting to interrupt a rally

The Australian Federal Police's professional standards unit will review the incident

The rally against trans rights has drawn attention after a similar protest in Melbourne was attended by neo-Nazis

As they tried to pull her back to her feet, Thorpe cried out "let me go" and then crawled away, before getting to her feet and walking away.
"We do not tolerate this kind of filth being on Ngunnawal-Ngarigo country,"

Thorpe later said, referring to the anti-transgender activists.

"Let alone the Nazi support that they have. They are racist. They are homophobic. They are destroying people's lives.

"This country should be ashamed that they even let people like this into this country."

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